Brown to stay hot versus the Tigers

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: We have 15 games on tap, starting with a Friday matinee in Wrigley between the Cardinals and Cubs. We should be clear of rain today, leaving plenty of action around MLB. With so many great arms on today’s slate, we only have three games with totals of nine runs or more. 

 

Notable Starts:

Hunter Brown had a rough start to the season, but he has looked like the high-end talent many expected to see when he came to the Astros. He enters Friday with four straight quality starts, allowing six earned runs over 24 innings with 26 strikeouts. His success has been supported by a 19.4% K-BB%, a 10.6% SwStr, and an elite 63.2% groundball rate. He takes on a Tigers team that has been cooling down lately and is...

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